Applications

The Why Question, what sort of things we want to do with VR

Phippe Fuch propose a taxonomy

VR is of no interest at all if you strictly and exactly reproduce each aspect of the real world.

You modify at least one of these 3 main aspects

Time

• T0 : Present Time or with no influence on the application

• T+ : Future

• T- : Past

• T~ : The time scale is different (slowed down or accelerated)

Place

• L0 : Same place or with no influence on the application

• L-> : Remote place

• L~ : Different scale

• LU : Union : presence of different people in the same Virtual World : IVR !

"Realistic vs Fictive" Artificial World and InterAction

• IA0 : Interaction in a Real World : not pure VR : let's say that Augmented Reality is something else !

• IAr : the simulation of a realistic Virtual World

• IAi : the Virtual World is Imaginary, Fictive, Abstract

NB

• IA0.T0.L-> : Remote Control, Telepresence ... not pure VR

• IA0.T0.LU : Telephone, Videophone, Videoconferencing

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